So when me and my friend rode Adventure Express we go to talking about the huge Fake out the second Hill is in the tunnel. I searched the forums and couldn't find if anyone else had posted about it. Was there supposed to be more to the coaster after the tunnel with the statues or was it built that way just to fool people?

I always assumed it was just planned that way but it does seem a bit strange. I remember my first ride on it thinking something big was about to happen and then...well we all know how it ends.

I'm sure the coaster was designed that way, they don't just go and start building a coaster and just wing it, coasters takes years of planning and design. When I was a kid I would fake out my friends who haven't been on it before but I always thought that it would of fit more on the first lift.

It was designed that way. They needed to get the trains back to the level of the station, which sits at a higher elevation than the rest of the ride. The best way to accomplish this, of course, is a lift hill!

Unintentionally, it kind of resembles the whole "Indiana Jones" film franchise. Great, gradual beginning, fun twists and turns (Raiders of the Lost Ark), a slow climb with loud, fake creaking and monkey noises, followed by a long, drawn-out non-drop (Temple of Doom), then a wonderful coaster experience with lots of lateral forces, and more twists and turns (The Last Crusade), and then another climb, filled with anticipation and cheesy hype, only to discover you're at the end of the ride (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).

...and then another climb, filled with anticipation and cheesy hype...

Wasn't that the truth. I still can't get over the fact that Harrison Ford kept saying for years that he would only do another one if he was presented with a "good" script...

I guess he was busy and just skimmed over the part that read: "Interior: 1950's House. Zoom in on Lead-Lined Refrigerator..."

I guess I am the only one that actually enjoyed the last Indy movie...Raiders and Last Crusade it was not but it is as good as Temple of Doom in my opinion.

Maybe the Myth busters can test that one, but I'm sure a nuclear bomb would be way to much for their budget! Put buster in the fridge and BOOM! No more buster

The whole fridge thing never bothered me as much as the part where Shia is swinging through the trees with the monkeys. For some reason that looks totally fake to me and seems less plausible than the surviving the bomb in the fridge.

^Well, you got me there...I would be hard-pressed to pick which of those two I did find the least plausable! (I do think I lean towards someone swinging on vines that can keep pace with a speeding vehicle though.)

I think we have now hijacked this thread enough where it will be moved to the "Off-Topic" section!

The reason that it is like that is because of having to get out of the valley. Also, when all the theming was working on the ride, it really wasn't that big of a let down IMO.

A sort of aside that isn't....Kings Island more than once marched right up to the line of infringement, but apparently didn't pass it...with Indiana Jones and Adventure Express...Phantom of the Opera and some sort of theater thing...

Both were before the sale of the park to Paramount.

Kind of strange the place ended up being owned, however briefly, by a movie studio!

^ One that made & distributed the Indiana Jones films no less (although, didn't own the theme park rights since George Lucas retained them...)

A sort of aside that isn't....Kings Island more than once marched right up to the line of infringement, but apparently didn't pass it...with Indiana Jones and Adventure Express...Phantom of the Opera and some sort of theater thing...

Both were before the sale of the park to Paramount.

Kind of strange the place ended up being owned, however briefly, by a movie studio!

add to the fact that the music when Scooby was the Haunted house was verrrrry close to the Tales From the Crypt music..there have been lawsuits over that type of infringement as well..i believe they still play the Indiana Jones Theme in the AE station or were last wknd when I went, so perhaps CF got that thrown in with the Nick license.

Playing music comes under a different license than theming rides...and, as has been pointed out, Paramount/CBS didn't have the theme park rights to Indiana Jones to sell to Cedar Fair.

I remember being excited when Paramount bought ki thinking that they would put more theming into AE and rename it after Indy

The first time I rode Adventure Express was on a class trip May of 1990 when it first opened. I was really pumped about the ride since the commercial was so creepy and mysterious (I wish a copy would eventually make its way to youtube). At that time it was surrounded by trees since Flight of Fear had yet to be built. As a result, it was hard to determine exactly where the ride was taking us. I remember going up the first chain lift expecting the first hill to plunge us straight down into a dark tunnel, and was dissapointed when it simply veered off to the right on a steady decline instead. The last tunnel freaked me out and figured that this must be the giant hill I was eagerly anticipating. Once we arrived on the other side, my buddy said "that ride stinks! I want to go ride The Vortex!" But I thought it was a great ride, however! It may be an error of perception, but I remember several additional mechanisms working throughout the ride (spears moving, lights flickering, water spraying, etc.) unlike today.

~Josh

Its a fun ride. I like it. It wasn't met to be big or bad just a fun ride that the entire family could ride.